About

Bernard Peter Robichau — known professionally as Peter Robichau — is a technology executive and cybersecurity leader with over twenty-five years of experience spanning healthcare IT, enterprise security, regulatory compliance, and organizational transformation. He currently serves as Director of IT & Cybersecurity at Digital Diagnostics, an AI-driven healthcare software company developing Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) products.

Previously, Peter founded and led Category 3 Partners, a digital consultancy providing strategic consulting to organizations navigating cybersecurity challenges, compliance mandates, and technology transformation. His career includes leadership roles at major healthcare institutions, including academic medical systems where he directed information security programs, led enterprise-wide Epic EHR implementations, and managed complex infrastructure modernization initiatives.

Peter is first a family man — a devoted husband and a loving father to four wonderful (adult) children. He makes his home in a lovely hamlet in the southern Appalachian mountains where the foothills rise to meet the majestic Blue Ridge.

His career has been defined by a deep commitment to building resilient technology programs, and translating complex regulatory requirements, including HIPAA and HITECH, into organizational programs characterized by digital modernization.

Peter’s approach to leadership emphasizes organizational alignment, executive partnership, and measurable risk reduction, bridging the gap between technical operations and boardroom strategy.

Peter’s book, Healthcare Information Privacy and Security: Regulatory Compliance and Data Security in the Age of Electronic Health Records (Apress/Springer, 2014), remains in use as a university textbook in health law and clinical informatics programs. In 2023, he was inducted into EC-Council’s CISO Hall of Fame, recognizing him among the top 50 Certified Chief Information Security Officers globally. Read more about his publications and credentials.

He holds CISSP, C|CISO, PMP, Epic Security, PROSCI Change Management, and Professional Scrum Master certifications.

Peter writes at the intersection of technology, philosophy, and theology. He resides in the southern Appalachian foothills of South Carolina, and is available for speaking engagements and professional inquiries.

Personal Factoids

Opinion of Starbucks Bitter and Undrinkable
> I’d rather drink gas station coffee. Sorry.
Recommended Reads SPQR, Hannah Coulter
> SPQR: Rome’s thousand-year arc from village to empire. // Hannah Coulter: A quiet life in rural Kentucky, told with devastating grace.
First Computer Tandy 1000EX
> 256KB of RAM and a built-in keyboard. Mass storage was a dream. I was unstoppable.
Dream Job Alpine Vagabond
> No Slack. No standups. Just cowbells, cheese, and existential clarity at 3,000 meters.

Lessons Learned

College and grad school grades don’t matter.

Valuable relationships matter. I’d have benefitted from a few more beers and a few less A’s.

Your calendar is a moral document.

The calendar doesn’t lie, but your mouth does.

Hire for character, train for skill.

I’ve hired brilliant jerks and watched them destroy teams, and I’ve hired humble learners and watched them become indispensable.

The project that “can’t fail” is already failing.

Whenever someone told me failure wasn’t an option, it meant we weren’t allowed to talk about the risks. That’s not confidence; that’s theater.

Our first reaction to criticism is almost always wrong.

My gut response to hard feedback is instinctively defensive nonsense. The best response usually arrives 24 hours later, after my ego has left the room. Always keep that in mind.